Vucic Accuses Croatia of Tearing Down Serbia and Interfering in Its Affairs

Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/PREDSEDNISTVO REPUBLIKE SRBIJE/Dimitrije Goll)

Croatia has done everything to bring down Serbia over the last year and a half and that brutal meddling in Serbia's internal affairs speaks to how much Croatia needs to be dominant in this region and how much it needs to humiliate Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic said late on March 12.

Vucic told state public service RTS that Croatia had been "the main logistic support" to the government's opponents over the last 18 months, since the start of protests after the collapse of the Novi Sad railway station outdoor  concrete canopy.

"They are still harboring people who are charged with severe criminal offenses, even though an Interpol Red Notice has been issued for those people (Novi Sad activists). To this day, they are conducting the most negative campaign against Serbia... They have tried to bring down our country, but have failed," said Vucic.

Commenting on Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic's statement that he would warn NATO about Serbia's new weapons, Vucic said that for a year he had been "listening to stories" about how Croatia had a better and stronger army, whereas now the officials in Zagreb were shocked to see that Serbia had hypersonic ballistic missiles.

He also said that Serbia had good relations with NATO and would continue to build upon them, but would not join the western military alliance.